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28: An 'out of this world' lecture

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Tahan Khan and Melissa Wish on the Cheese Board

Tahan Khan: I have never shut up about getting it in one on that first question and I'm going to do it again. Sabrina Wish: If Sabrina is overly competitive, you know, I can't be held liable. The questions I have in my script today are a bit like a cheese board. They are addictive, varied in texture and they've got some mustard smeared on them - although that's mostly from my lunch. Let's take a bite out of question one, which is this. In 1922, the Austrian physicist, Liz Meitner, gave her first public lecture on the significance of radioactivity in cosmic processes. She was surprised by the large number of

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